The Sun. — London, England, 1810-06-23 00:00:00

• Oise-I , IIW alteration of, the existing laws, the end ;ied ebjeet of those at present in force, for designat iog the qualifications of representatives would be preserved ; and every ruined, or much incumber ed, individual, instead of seeking refuge from the claims of his fair creditors in the Hothe of Com mons, would, from the publicity of the measure, fly from it, as from " plague, pestilence, and fa mine ;". and the body at large thus purified, become at once the most respeaable, and the most respett ed• too, of any that history has handed down to us in the annals of the world. Every player would then have a real stake in the political game, and not be.liable to be driven, by personal distress, into mea sures injurious to his country, and dishonourable to himself. The writer is well aware, that' so mode rate and. plate a mode of, reform, as is here pro posed, cannot hit the tastes of all alike, The Crown and Anchor reformers will probably; on• the one hand, consider it as.nothing : a mere drop in the ocean of corruption, which could neither purify its' waters, or alter the course of its current ; whilst the men of ruined and desperate fortunes, now baskirig; in the sunshine of representative immunity-, would_ proclaim it one. .of the most visionary, impractica ble, anti . inefficieat scheines, ever subm tte.l to the. consideration of the public. Visionary, how ( ver, and inefficient as it may appear, nothing eau .be more easy than its execution ; and not-ping mere certain and salutary than' its elects. Without either, altering or infringing the spirit of any . existing law, the representative body would thus be i.t once purged of its, most objedienable and de stredive parts; afa n e w life and. vigour in Conse quence, be restored to what remains. ery indi .occupyiug a seat in the lower iieuse of Par liament would then .be, in cireutustances at least, of some hadependence : and whatever germs of cor ruption might be.discoverable in him, must be.co existent' with his natural frame and constitution ;- and not derived from the circumstances of external. situatien. - It ! will be asked, perhaps, how, in such times as the present, when the , prices of every ar ticle, essential not only to the comforts, but even the necessities of life have experienced so immo- • derate and disproportioned a rise, could the posses sion., of a deer three hundred, or six hundred pounds a year, place a man beyond the reach of corrupt in fluence ? The answer is, that, though it might not , do so- wholly (whip i probably might be the case), yetweuld it be well worth the experiment ; for surely one possessing either of those incomes, .or the moiety, or even the,quarter of them " above rekrizes," would stand upon much more respectable ground than another, who does not possess any in come at, all, and., is induced, by that very circum stance, ao seek an asylum in Parliament from the just demands of his. creditors. The former may prove, it is true, a verydishooourable and unworthy member of Society ; 'hut the latter, ernost neces sarily, is such before he would aspire•to a seat in Parliament, on the grounds, and for the purpose stated ; wed should any spark of honour lurk latent in - his frame, is liable to have it extinguished by the 'very tit stairon from the phial of temptation that is poured upon it. How many individuals do we not know under this. degrading predicament How limey disguised under the cloaks of, patriotism, and pretende , d zeal for the tights 'of the peo pl.:, %he 'are theinselves . the greatest enemies to those rights, by an equal' disregard of their oven freuour, aed the Claims 01 those who have just de. ! -• 'Minds oa theni 'How many,' on the other hand, become the must aCtive and • mischievous creatures • of inhaistetial influence; from the same degrading and dishonourable motives ? Were men, before they courted seats in Parliament, to place themselves in -a clear and independent situation, and•be enabled to enter that respectable . assembly with erea counte nances, andsay,..? We . e tt laim our seats here as cho se represeetatiVes of . l he' . people, to' defend their rights, and Maintain • car own ; here are our titles - • to.that propel ty, - which constitutes our legal quali firations—assail them .who may, we stan:l at all times on our:defence, perfe&ly conscious that our failure involves the forfeiture of that situation, which viteliaveb en most ambitious of obtaiuing."—How • tru;) , respedable would an assembly of such repre sentatives ..render theMselves, not merely in the eyes of their. constituents, but of the world at . huge ; and, what is more than 'all the rest, in their own ! Instead of .being pointed at, as • is eow too frequently the case, with the gager of ,skorn, as substantially alliehs from that community _whose rights they arebound to protea ; as fugitives from raw and justice; under the shadow of privilege,, . and -and sheltering themselves under the meanest evasions,• for the basest and most criminal of pur poses, they would then become the true and fair re , preseptativestof. thepeople who eleded them, with Ire; other bias to betray their trust, than what might. be referred to the tailings of-our common nature, to the total eradication of which no human institutions can apply. Titus by. a simple adherence to the spi rit of the existing laws, which bad their origin both in reason and expediency, aild.were never yet evaded eVee in letter, without the. virtual 'breach of a so . leemeath, would the supposed defeds in the repre sent4titehody be at once remedied, so far as .t he con - .._etitutiop permits, witthout a dereleaion of rights, .or incipks, oe the one hand ;or a forcible Mita , seee•ofthem, •,on the other. The .representative 'thus . be rendered- respectable; and the - conStiteteof content, at 'least to all reasonable piivpo , ts, and to • the full satisfa&ion of every reasoabie -mind ; for - he who expeCts that any plan 'could he termed, or. hint suggested, that : V slioett 'equally . 'meet tile objects and wishes of all e!ittiese would be just as weak as the countryman iL'op,-who attempted to adjust, the management ttl pis beast„ conformably to the advice of every .pas , senqr ; and with as rational a hope, as to the ulti .ituete result, ,its the other. of Horace, who • • " ttusncus expectat (Lunt detlug minis, at We I.abitur, et boetur in omne xrn vo." tf~ICEO , VEST I . . Sank Stoik o ? 260 ti'l-v‘•;' per (err. shut I . rish 5 o'er Ce . nt. . 4 i.cr 85i 8{ 3 oe coils. shut • nut'? S* 4,1601 S . • . V- .I'7'OCKS . . , RDAY. II I ndia Stout, .. . ndiaßonds, 215..225. 2os. pr. Excheq. 13ills; Or, 3S. pr. Omnium, i pr. lmperi?al 3 per Cent. Co. tor Opming, 7r i HAILS... . . , . Ait ty —; Gottettbuigh, t New-York, t • llublio. L.! --1 Lisbon, 2 Waterford. F.• 1 , S'q)CKS , ' •t. - , ,kx 1.'%1' .• •CrillSol i'foi • U pcniag 7i I j Oirmitiru - „* I f the Cletaletnan who wishes the Errata to be insert.d,• fespetting the Trial or the 16th, will state specifically the errors which he wishes to Kaye corrected, hiS wishes shall be complied with on Monday. . . THE SUN. SOLLM QUIS utem TALsum AuuEAT ? L 0 N D 0 N. SATUEDAY, JUNE 23, It 4 10. We . have received the following Letter from our Correspondent at Falmotih, dated the 20th instant : This evening arrived the schooner Swift, FRASER, from Lisbon in 13 days ; the master of which - re ports, that just previous to her sailing, accounts were received that Lord WELLINGTON'S army had been attacked by the French army under NIAssENA, and that the latter had been 'completely defeated. Such . .was the current report all over Lisbon." • We are however very much inclined to doubt the truth of 'thi - s report, because the last dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON, which were dated the 3d instant, do not, we understand, indicate any expec tation of an immediate battle. The rivers between the positions of the hostile armies were considerably swollen, so that. an action, for some time at least, was not probable:, . • - • This morning ,a Guttenburgh Mail, and-German Papers to the kntli..instant arrived, from Which' we have made the following extrads-: STRALSUND, JUNE 11.-A French Consul has unexpectedly arrived in this place, "in consequence 'of which all produce and" manufadures have been put under sequestration, as well as the cargoes of ships - in the harbour. There is good reason for be-, heying that some of our smaller vessels will be imme— diately fitted out as privateers. It has been thought advisable to order off the vessels which had not re - ached the Places ,for- discharging. GOTTENBUEGII ) JUNE 16.—An express has just arrived from Stralsund, with news of a French Consul having arrived there, and placed all magi. zines, warehouses, ships, &c. &c. under seques tration. • AMSTERDAM, JUNE s.—ln consequence of the se paration of the Countries and Provinces ceded to France, our Legislative Body will consist of four Members less than it did before. According to a Royal Decree, four Members of Dutch Brabant, two for Zealand, and two for the ceded Districts of Guelderland, and - Maiseland; are to go out. According to our Court Gazette, the squadrons in our harbours will be fitted out with the utmost ao tivity. The Count VON HUESSCN (Admiral Ds WINTER) who commands the first squadron, hoisted . • his flag. on the 26th of May, on board the Royal Hollander, ~ o f go guns ; and Rear-Admiral VER. DOOREN his On the 30thbf May, on board the Crown Prince, of 89'guns, s Great diligence is used in his .fitting , completely:for sea tenth the squadrons, as also . that under 'the command of Rear Admiral LEMMERS. • BANKS of :rita 13LEE, JUNE B.—General Count , .MoLiTott, who. with his:division .of the French armyi has his head-quarters at Hamburg, left this 'city about a week 'ago, •to make a journey,, along the sea coast, from the Elbe as far as the Weser. this military tour he was • accompanied by • engi *mere, revenue officers, and guards, 'who knew" the - country well. The result of this military tour of in ,speaion has been the placing a triple line. of soldiers' -and revenue officers,- so as'to make - it almost irn possible to open any communication with the sea .without being discovered. The vigilance and seve rity of the French in these' parts how exceeds' all de.' scription. The Hanse towns were obliged, - at' a great expence, to,ceiebrate BUONAPARTE'S mar riage with his LOUISA, in a sfyle'of sumptuousness Very inadequate to their present distressed condi . tion: ' AC Hamburgh, this took plaCe at the desire of the French .Minister BOURIENNE, who hinted to - the. Senate that this mark of respeet would probably be of essential service to their little Commonwealth ; .but the result has been, that a- few days after the feast, the French Miriister- as well as the military •authoritieS, informed the city, that it would hence forth not be sufficient to supply the French division I of MOLITOR with free quarters, food, and clothing, but also to advance them regularly their monthly pay. This exorbitant demand was, like all others/ -complied with.'• COPEI4H4VEN; Jura; e.- 7 -Travellers report ,that Admiral SAUMAREZ orders all ships to be brought in that are either going to ; or coming from Gotten - burgh. Thirty . -tive'shipi and a number of boats are • said to. have already : fallen into his. hands. ,All Americans, as well as such ships' as cannot produce licenses, are brought up. Sir JAMES:I3 said' to have received this order .by a,swift sailing cutter,. on his arrival at Gottenburgh. The , Duke of AUGUSTEN BURGH returned hither from SWeden bn the 28th of May. • • • • A: large. fleet of between 3 or- 400 transpor4s, which , in-rivet). in ..the 'Bela on the 3,oth; sailed, after short ;toy; with its escort, audall the 111C0 of war then the Belt, to the Southward. Some of the Litter afterwards reuirned 44 - d occupied their fol.- mer•station. 7.—On-the 29th the pasi:;ge of the 'Sound was So far shut, that travellers were permitted to come on shore, but none of them to return. Our fey rymen. from. Elsineur were not permitted to land, but an Adjutant, sent from crcgtenburg, was per mitted to pass and . repass, -,The Chamberlain EYER, who Caine on the morning of the g9th troni Sweden to Elsineur, went immediately to Cc)pen hagen, and returned in, the evening when he re passed the Sound. In the night of the 30th; a French and Swedish Courier passed the SOund at Elsineur. 'On the:3:t4t of May the Sound was quite tree again. We this morning received American Papers, but they are not of so late a date as those which reached us last week. We have alk, received Canada' and Nova Scotia Papers, but they contain no news. In addition to our interesting communication of yesterday respe6ting the Gnat:oS, we understand that a vast body of people had ; on the - tgt h of April,: seized all the Officers appointed, by tile .former vern mene of Spain, forced them on boarda ship, and ordered them to be as it•was.suppused,'to Cuba. The RevoltitiOn . was ifteaed withotit hostile conflia, and seems to be the entire efteCt of the popular. will, The Committee of 'air rHANCIS -BURDETT liave* - 7 thought it necessary to publish 'an apOlogy -, for his conduct on Thursday, but it' is one which is not, very.. likely to prove,satisfaetory either to hisadmirers or, to his opponents, It would give as , great pleasure it. Sir FRANCIS'S camtud upon that'occaitin had . been • such as would enable us to speak of it id terms of . apprnbation,; . ,but we.befieve that his greatest friends will find it difficult to state any one ground upon • which it'can be justified. Messrs. NICHOLSON and PowELL, who have published this apology fot Sir FRANCIS, state, that he told them that his enemies had charged him with the blood which had been shed on a .former occasion, and that if, by gratifying. his personal vanity, he . hatt been the cause of a sin gle accident, or caused the death of any person, he should have refloated upon it with pain for the re.; mainder of his life. If this had been the real mo tive which induced Sir. FLIANCIS to decline a public procession, we should have been the first to applaud his conduel ; but that he was aduated by no such motive must be obvious upon a moment's reflection,. If he was really so ansious.to prevent any accidents, or the shedding of any blood, why did he not de clare his intention not to go in procession ? Why did he . suffer his Committee to take every means in their power to • coiled - the whole po pulation of the metropolis ) Why was that immense crowd kept.- assembled for hours, on Tower Hill, and in the vicinity . ? The circum stance 01 his not joining the procession' was not cal culated to prevent any accident from occurring, and ..• it any unfortunate event - had happened, he WoUld,. in a 'moral point of. view, haVe been just as yespon : sible as if Imhad been-present. Sir FRANCIS knew 'very Well that such an immense concourse of pro 'plc could -not be assembled. on such an occasiOn, without the danger of accidents,.or 'of blood being shed, and yet he permits his Committee, for a fortnight before the prorogation, to advertise for a MOla on the day of his liberation ; and then satisfies his •Conscience by running himself . .• • out of. the • way of danger, Jesting his friends , and admirers to take their chance. Messrs. Nix not:- SON and Powtt.i. very naturally. expressed their Sur; 1 • prise at this inconsistency of the Baronet ; they told him, they thought there was no.Nssibillty of mischief happening, and added, that he ought . to have made his determinatiOn known, beeause:rt per .; cuffed to them, as it 'must have occurred to any ,man of common sense, that if he really wished to have . prevented mischief. he would' naturally have announced his intention of not going in . proces sion, and then' .no -crowd would have assembled. This plain. and sensible observation of Messrs. POWELL and NICHOLSON produced the real truth from Sir FRANCIS, for he told them that he thought it " absolutely necessary, that there:should be' an expression of public sentiment ; 'that was how complete, and his being in the' procession could not have added thereto."--So, then, it appeari that Sir Fnaticts, who would have been," miserable for the rest of his life, if a Mingle accident had happened, or any life hid' been lost," did a&ually wish that a crowd should be 'assembled, and that a procession should take place ; that he suffered his- Committee and his friends' to make Ithemselves ridiculous, in order that "Ills vanity might. be gratifi.sd, and that he conceived he should get rid - of all moral responsibility, if any Mischief happened, by the miserable trick of not joining the procession. There were but two' plain and.matily.courcs wich Sir Francis could have pursued, viz. either to have joined the procissiOn, or by declaring his intention before-hand, to .b 3 "/ prevented the assembling of a crowd ; but his va• nity could not let him adopt the one, arid he seems to have been deterred from pursuing the other 1 1 mere considerations of personal safety. if he thought there Wasoo danger, of mischief in thepublic proces sion, he ought to have joined it;. if he thought was, he ought not to have hazarded the public peace , ' and to have exposed his friends to -a danger, in hi s cause, which be was - determined • not to share him self. ht there On W , tdnesday, her IVI/o.ncrv, Princdsißs AuGt: 6 " TA, SL4I-1/A, ELIZABIi:ta, and. MARY,. went. 10 A.'" Cot Races to See iiis MA:RSTY'i of 100 ruu for. Her MAJESTY dined in the Royal . booth: The Duke of YORK, Lord Riven:3, Couut NiuNstsit, • MarqUiSCORIVNALLIS. Gent:ll4lS GWYIII.III3, G A RTH, FITZROY, Ladies COLLIER, THY NNE, ACC. were of the Royal party. Her MAJESTY and the Princesses returned to Windsor at six oVock in the evening. Princess .4144nLaA remains touch the ;Sante as Lis t ' week. • • , is- MAJ-ESTY and Princesses AuGpsrA and SO rtatn took an airing on Thursday Morning in .Vi r i , !4'r . sor Great Park, till twelve o'clock, w ith thei(ostl t, attendants. At three o'clOck vir.) o4 Princess Antszak, and staid with ,her till hall 1 3, a (pie-o'clock, - • . The QuEE:g and PRINCESSES went to Ascot Baa s yesterday. • 'Yesterday, afternoon, about three r - lcirick, Duke Of CITINp lit A ND, accO. , opanted.oy• Highness the Isite4 his Mews at St. ,Jarnes's Palace, tor the, first, tlod si" cee lus accident. Their Royal Highnesses were iiitougb the suite •of aparrthents; and remained a cot.sidetatO . time in the bei-moue, which has been lucked 6 P. since flied - being las - t ptiblelY shewn, acid arf; still in-the same state as on the morning atter the hurOd transaction. •His Royal Highness proceeded 1 1 "" 1 his apartments in his open landau ;I) the 1.1.4 1 - Riding House at Pimlico, where he had a lung . -terview with the Lieutenant , Colonel and of his regiment; who were under marching orders Jo; Hounslow Barracks. At a little before six hi,: RoY 3 ' Highness returned to CA - him-house to dirmj."7" His Royal Hightiess..iooks very pale, and head bound, and his hands muffled up. It is 0' that. he cannot bear his-left arm to be tou..hed, tha pain is so athite, and that' there is a Wactote sktill, which must yet undergti a serious operaioll.! We have been fiwoured with the fallowing it' teresting document, the, publicAtion of which w reveal some important and useful infortz3 faun to our traders : Copy of Instructions found on board an army u schooner belonging lo'Kiel, mounting six guns, 28 men, taken off Wismar, April y, 18.iu, by tn ~ boats of one of . his ships, She had 1 11 °' 4° two captures. • In the cruize which you commence to-dl' You must, principally be careful, Urn 'you send 110 ships inta the.harbour,:.unless you ate. perpacld• . That they . citniefioin En t ,siand, and a lisence to board ;Tor have heen'er.autiocd by , 'English vessel, or are laden with lonial commodities.; whether Danisn, Swedish, .Meckleuhurgh, Prosltan, or negt4 • sell. - CC Secondly, The ships which come flow Sian harbours, are generally bound for En.•;- , c' whether laden with goods or in ballast, cleared-for Norwegian or other allied ports. ladingof these ships must be signed and ace :Jr , hied with a certificate from the French Cr..,ose. Petershurgh. Aii these vessels have English i on b oard, whin you. roust - ii id, or else you iakethem as prizes You may obtain them I. !liking the ship of:money to the Captain. lit 'promise the men.the same, and every thiir , Mise., in Order to get -the licenses, I will faithfully. " Th irdly, ''You must loOk out par - i suet) vessels as are gorug to RuSsia or Pro . have get,eral!y colonial wares on board great "value. 'As . Soon sou have tab ,_ • von ( send it to Dantzic, if out at ea,..directed, wOA-J • account of the transaction, to Mr. , w erc " Fourthly, your . 16g most oe as exactas posoib lei you must observe• A. Thelongitudi't where you 'saw a altip. B. The longitude where you boarded her. - , C. tinder what colours she sailed, and it 'she re . fuses to heave to, or detend.heraelf. • " Fifthly, As soon as you come on board, YO: must take' possession of ail papers, and esaal li/ E , 'the . whole company, and see they have nnib lr ` ii 4 cone“tleci, about the body ; the clothes also Ye': must exatnine. • You•Mtist criti;e• from Colberg- to Palau and Af. ei : send . 'your prizes to p.m; you noLgo, thithvr endeavour to sail to Warnernut d 19 u' Rostock, v. here you must apply to Air. t Narrienmod, or Mr. hi Rostock. YO.tl M tl' e give . him an accurate account of every thing. 14 will take you lo* the French 41onsul, who will , care of the rest. . • Alter yon have:drate this,talie each man sellsra re l. oS and examine him, strictly ; spew him the 11=cree the. Emperor. Napoleon, of 1 1 tit J.iuuary, I BbS. tt which a third part of the prize-money is ► to any one who will declare that the vessel has cc` examined by the English, or that she sailed ti l . , FTgland, or has any English lisence ; tell ihe mite that every thing will be kept silent, and that tbq have rapt a better opportunity of making their /or tunes. t The Decree I have sent inclosed. • (o 'filet A Gentleman on Wednesday last went. into ii 3° Exhibition-room of Mr,,,Dußosr, a French a,ti.4!' and cut his chief, pictures to pifces. subject was•a' satiric reptesenialion in high It might be supposed that the Genilernan w ho ext t l it; this manner was iusatie, it it bad not bt'en hinte`, that he suspected. the jiciure in question to be tended as a reflection on his family. • Mr. COli4.'S Annti.d Sbiep-shearing, at Holl:1 10 '..; co•litneuces on Monday, to Which most of she Agriculturkts are direfititig their eo,a from W-Ouin al;bey, and other quaiteri.